WEBVTT FEELINGS HAS THE EXCLUSIVE DETAILS ESCAPE ANSWERING NOW AROUND THE COUNTRY TO DEMOCRATS FRIENDS CAMP WONDERING IF I COULD HAPPEN HERE DROPPING SECURITY WORRIED WHAT CAN HAPPEN NEXT BUT OPENED IT UP THERE WA THE MURDERED POSSUM IS SHAKING AFTER A DISTURBING DROP OFF AT HIS HOME HE’S CALLING EASTMAN’S FINANCE DIRECTOR IN HIS HOME IS THE MAILING ADDRESS FOR HER CAMPAIGN FOR MY ADDRESS IS ON YOUR THOUSANDS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PIECES OF CAMPAIGN LITERATURE HOW MUCH IS THIS IN HIS DRIVEWAY AT THE PLASTIC AND I SEE THE FACE OF THIS DEAD POSSUM AND BLOOD ON ITS FACE AND IT CLEARLY BEEN FRESHLY KILLED IT WASN’T ROADKILL IT LOOK LIKE IT BEEN STRUCK ON THE HEAD CAN’T JUST BELIEVE IT’S A TARGETED ATTACK AGAINST EASTMAN AND SHE AGREES THIS IS NOT FOR ME THIS WAS NOT MEANT FOR ANYBODY ELSE ON MY CAMPAIGN TEAM IT JUST SAYS HE’S AFRAID FOR HIS FAMILY SAFETY HE’S DECIDED TO INSTALL CAMERAS AND RELOCATE HIS CHILDREN UNTIL THE ELECTION IS OVER AND DUMP IT AT MY HOUSE WHO KNOWS WHAT’S NEXT EASTMAN SAYS THIS BEHAVIOR IS UNACCEPTABLE INSTEAD OF COMMITTING ACTS OF VIOLENCE LET’S JUST VOTE US REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BACON EASTMAN’S OPPONENT SAID THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY FOR THESE ACTIONS CANDIDATES AND THEIR TEAM SHOULD BE ABLE TO CONDUCT THEIR CAMPAIGNS WITHOUT FEAR OF VIOLENCE SET FOR THESE KINDS OF THINLY VEILED THREATS THIS MUST STOP AND MUST STOP NOW AT LEAST THEY SAY THEY ARE INVESTIGATING EASTMAN’S CAMPAIGN SAYS THIS INCIDENT DIDN’T SCARE THEM IN FACT IT’S MAKING THEM FIGHT HARDER THAT’S ALL I HAVE DONE BAKING AND COURT EASTMAN IN STUDIO FOR A DEB

With just over a week to the election, Kara Eastman said her campaign was targeted: a dead animal was left at the home of her finance director. She said the entire campaign is upping security amid attacks on elected officials around the country.

“I opened it up and there was the murdered possum,” Dave Pantos, Eastman’s finance director, said.

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Pantos said he is shaken after a disturbing drop off at his home. As Eastman's finance director, his home is the mailing address for her campaign.

“For 18 months my address is on thousands and hundreds of thousands of pieces of campaign literature,” Pantos said.

Friday afternoon Pantos noticed something left in his driveway, wrapped in plastic.

“I pull back the plastic and I see the face of this dead possum and blood on its face. And it had clearly been freshly killed,” Pantos said.

“It wasn’t road kill it looked like it had been struck on the head."

Pantos believes it's a targeted attack against Eastman, and she agrees.

“This was meant for me. This was not meant for anybody else on my campaign team,” she said.

Pantos said he's afraid for his family's safety. He decided to install cameras and relocate his children until the election is over.

“If someone is going to brutally kill an animal and formulate this plan to dump it at my house, what's next?” he asked.

Eastman said this behavior is unacceptable.

“Instead of committing acts of violence let’s just vote,” she said.

"This is not bringing civility into politics and we need to restore the civility in our country right now.”

Eastman also said she worries for the children.

“Every one of us has kids and the fact that our kids could have seen this and now our kids are afraid, it's terrible,” she said.

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, Eastman's opponent, released a statement in relation to the event.

"This disgusting behavior needs to stop. I strongly condemn any activity like this and hope the perpetrator is identified and prosecuted. There is absolutely no place in our society for these actions, period. Candidates and their teams should be able to conduct their campaigns without fear of violence, theft, or these kinds of thinly-veiled threats. This must stop, and it must stop now,” Bacon said.